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KNAPP: COVID-19 mask mandates and the Law of the Instrument

“One day after the state reported a record 92 COVID-19-related deaths,” the Wisconsin State Journal‘s Mitchell Schmidt reports, “Gov. Tony Evers announced Wednesday he plans to extend the state’s emergency declaration and accompanying mask mandate through mid-January. … The current mask mandate was issued in July and extended by Evers in September.” The first two mask mandates didn’t achieve the desired result! Something must be done! Hey, I’ve got an idea! How about another mask mandate? At first blush this sounds […]

todayNovember 23, 2020 6

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FDA authorizes pool testing for COVID-19 through Quest

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration reissued an emergency use authorization to Quest Diagnostics to use its COVID-19 tests with up to four pooled samples Saturday. According to the FDA, the Quest test is the first COVID-19 test to be authorized for use with pooled samples. Sample pooling allows multiple people to be tested in a pool or "batch" using one test, rather than running each individual sample through its own test. If the batch tests positive, […]

todayJuly 18, 2020 13

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The Healthy Geezer: Baby-sitting grandparent seems to get more colds

Since I started being a baby-sitting grandparent, I seem to be getting more colds. I must be catching germs from the kids, right? The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reports that schoolchildren get as many as 12 colds a year. Put those kids near their grandparents and it doesn’t take a scientist to know that those colds are going to spread. My personal physician--also a grandfather--says that one of the problems is that these walking petri dishes come […]

todayJanuary 3, 2018 22

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